COMBUSTION

ASSIGNMENT NO. 4. PROCESSES INVOLVING GAS MIXTURE

A. INSTRUCTIONS:
Submit your HAND-WRITTEN solution to each problem.
Also submit a corresponding MS Excel Workbook for the calculations made.

B. PROBLEM STATEMENT

1. Combustion gases enter a gas turbine at 750°C and 1.2 MPa at a rate of 3.4 kg/s and
leave at 630°C and 500 kPa. It is estimated that heat is lost from the turbine at a rate
of 30 kW. Using air properties for the combustion gases and assuming the
surroundings to be at 25°C and 100 kPa, determine:

(a) the actual and reversible power outputs of the turbine,

(b) the exergy destroyed within the turbine, and
(c) the second-law efficiency of the turbine.

2. A process requires a mixture that is 21 percent oxygen, 78 percent nitrogen, and 1

percent argon by volume. All three gases are supplied from separate tanks to an
adiabatic, constant-pressure mixing chamber at 200 kPa but at different
temperatures. The oxygen enters at 10°C, the nitrogen at 60°C, and the argon at
200°C. Determine the total entropy change for the mixing process per unit mass of
mixture.

3. A diesel engine sprays fuel (assume n-dodecane, C12H26, M = 170.34 Ibm/lbmol) into
the combustion chamber already filled with 1 mol fuel per 88 mol air. Find the fuel
fraction on a mass basis and the fuel mass for a chamber that is 0.07 ft3 at 1400 R
and a total pressure of 600 psia.

4. A pipe flows 0.1 kg/s of a mixture with mass fractions of 40% CO2 and 60% N2 at 400
kPa, 300 K. Heating tape is wrapped around a section of pipe with insulation added,
and 2 kW electrical power is heating the pipe flow. Find the mixture exit temperature.